National Museum

The National Museum (Malay: Muzium Negara) is an exhibition hall situated on Jalan Damansara in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The gallery is arranged in close closeness to the Perdana Lake Gardens and it gives an outline of Malaysian history and society. The National Museum is a palatial structure worked in the style of Rumah Gadang, a part of Minangkabau engineering. Its veneer contains components of conventional Malay and present day highlights. National Museum was opened on 31 August 1963, and it serves as an archive of Malaysia's rich social and verifiable legacy.

The National Museum is a three-story structure of 109.7 meters in length and 15.1 meters wide and 37.6 meters at the main issue. The historical center houses four fundamental displays distributed to ethnology and normal history. The presentations range from detached tableaux demonstrating social occasions like weddings, celebrations and ensembles; to conventional weapons, musical instruments, expressions and specialties, pottery, and widely varied vegetation.

National Museum was set up on the site of the previous Selangor Museum. It was worked by the British and Selangor governments in 1898 after the development of the Federated Malay States in 1896.

The historical center's outline by planner Ho Kok Hoe was motivated by the engineering of the Malay regal royal residences and vernacular Malay design. The outline joined the requirement for display and movement spaces. The extensive mosaic wall paintings spreading over the passageway portray the history and society of the nation. The floor of the focal segment of the primary building is designed with exceptional tiles which were blessings from the legislature of Pakistan. What's more, UNESCO encouraged consultancies by historical center specialists from different galleries around the globe.

The gallery houses different exhibitions, each with its own topic. The ground floor showcases the geographic and regular history of the Malay promontory beginning with the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms to Muslim sultanate of Malacca. The antiquated Malay Hindu-Buddhist conditions of Gangga Negara, Srivijaya and Majapahit are referenced. Among the accumulations are the stone makara statue, the bronze Avalokiteshvara of Bidor, the model of Bujang Valley sanctuary in Kedah, furthermore showing area's antiquated legacy, for example, Javan Borobudur and Majapahit vessel. The show proceeds to the later Muslim Sultanate of Malacca and the different conditions of Malaysia. The presentation exhibit the significance of Malaccan sultanate for Malaysian national character. The second floor is devoted to the pioneer history driving the distance to Independence. There are duplicates of the imperial headgear of Malay rulers.